Category: Crime

Not less than seven operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have reportedly sustained injuries during a raid at Nukai market, along Jalingo-Wukari road in Taraba State capital, Jalingo, while one of their operation vehicles was damaged.     Despite the attack, the officers arrested Micha Godwin, a notorious drug dealer at the market, as well as recovered some quantities of illicit drugs from the suspect before retreating to the hospital for treatment.    A spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said the operatives, following…

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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday declared as illegal, the defection of Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and his deputy, Dr. Kelechi Igwe, from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress. The court presided over by Justice Inyang Ekwo, made the order in a judgment on a suit filed by the PDP seeking the removal of Umahi and Igwe from office. While Umahi, at a press conference in Abakaliki berated the judge and insisted that he remained the state governor, the PDP National Chairman,…

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A 21-year-old tailor, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who was recently declared missing has been found dead. A Lagos Bus Rapid Transit driver, Andrew Nice, alleged to be involved in her abduction has been arrested. The police also said the remains of the victim had been recovered. Oluwabamise, who closed from work around 7pm on February 26, was on her way to visit her brother, Pelumi, when she boarded the BRT vehicle around Chevron Bus-stop, in the Lekki area of the state. The busman, Omininikoron, was said to be conveying the victim to…

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A Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra state, has ordered the arrest of a Rev. Father, Ejike Nwankwo, over a case of assault, malicious damage and conduct likely to cause breach of peace standing against him in the  court. Issuing a warrant of arrest against Rev Father Nwankwo, the presiding Magistrate, His Worship Nnaemeka Nnacheta, ordered that the cleric should be arrested anywhere he is seen and brought to court to answer charges against him. In a five count charge at the Magistrate…

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An eight-count charge bothering on trafficking in hard drugs has been slammed against the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), yesterday, in Abuja. Kyari was charged with the criminal offences alongside four other senior police officers and two civilians in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CR/57/2022 filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja and signed by NDLEA Director of Prosecution and Legal Services, Joseph Sunday. Those charged along with Abba Kyari are, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Sunday Ubua, Assistant Superintendent…

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No fewer than 200 armed bandits were killed between Sunday and yesterday by operatives of the joint Security Taskforce in Rafi and Mariga Local Government Areas, LGAs, in gun duel. This was made known by the Niger State Government yesterday. Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Internal, Mr. Emmanuel Umar, at a briefing in Minna yesterday, said the bandits were killed in Kundu axis of Rafi and Babanlaba axis of Mariga LGAs and other parts of the state between Sunday and Wednesday. He noted that all the leaders of…

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The Federal Government has approved the request by the United States of America to extradite the suspended Commander of the Police Intelligence Response Team, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari. The US had requested that Kyari should be extradited over alleged $1.1million wire fraud involving Abass Ramon aka Hushpuppi and four others. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), made this known in an application filed before the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja. In the application marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/249/2022, and filed under…

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Ohalete Jogoji, a 73-year-old man, has been arrested for allegedly killing his immediate younger brother, Augustine Jogoji, over a land dispute. The incident happened at Amaraku Junction, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, where some youths seized the suspect and stripped him naked. They threatened to beat him up before some youths, led by one Bathram Uwandu, rescued him and took him to the police command headquarters in Owerri. Ohalete, during an interview, said he hacked his younger brother to death while he was asleep. The…

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A 23-year-old man, Victor Akinwa, has been remanded in prison custody on the order of an Ondo magistrate Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State, for allegedly killing his father, Justus. Victor was arrested for allegedly killing his father with a pestle in November 2021 on Basic Road, Idanre, in the Idanre Local Government Area of the state. The police prosecutor, Mr Obadasa Ajiboye, told the court that the defendant hit his father with a pestle in the head, which resulted in his death. According to the prosecution, the offences contravene…

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A traditional ruler and eight other mourners were reportedly killed during a burial ceremony by bandits suspected to be loyalists of late Terwase Agwaza alias ‘Gana’ at Imande Mbakenge, Mbache Council Ward of Katsina-Ala Local Government Government Area, LGA, of Benue State. The gruesome murder of the mourners came less than 48 hours after troops of the joint security/military operation in Benue State, codenamed Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, eliminated three militia leaders and loyalists of the late ‘Gana’ in Katsina-Ala and Ukum LGAs. It was gathered from a source in…

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